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RetroArch V1.0.0 - Wii - GC

Post by wii_HD » Sun Jan 05, 2014 5:58 pm

New year new RetroArch.

As my CRT is broken now awaiting repair I have not tried out the new release.

There does not appear to be a changelog or a mame core.

http://www.libretro.com/index.php/downloads/
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Post by Aressi » Mon Jan 06, 2014 3:51 pm

On gamecube version I can play only super puzzle fighter 2 turbo, sunsest riders and cadillacs and dinosaurs, gamecube version has not improved
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Post by julius » Mon Jan 06, 2014 10:11 pm

Have only tested PCE core and finally the controler issue was fixed on gamecube, wich is good because this emu do play sound on super cd games, but I cannot use the six button controller on games like Street Fighter CE. No changes in the other cores but would appreciate someone could test Doom and Quake cores, I try to make them to work but it seems I some file is missed or I do not configured them correctly.
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Post by bearteam » Tue Jan 07, 2014 12:50 am

The VBA-next core still crashes after selecting any game. They should remove that core since it does not work at all.
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Post by y0da89 » Sat Apr 19, 2014 2:22 pm

I've got this error when I select a GBA game.
I reported it on the libretro forum, I hope they (or someone here) can fix it

http://www.hostingpics.net/viewer.php?i ... to0021.jpg
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Post by bearteam » Sun Apr 20, 2014 1:35 am

y0da89 wrote:I've got this error when I select a GBA game.
I reported it on the libretro forum, I hope they (or someone here) can fix it

http://www.hostingpics.net/viewer.php?i ... to0021.jpg
They would not. They would only say "It's all Gamecube's small RAM's falut, and the Gamecube's port is only a by-product of Wii's port".
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Post by novenary » Sun Apr 20, 2014 8:02 am

The Wii doesn't have more RAM. It has four times the ARAM though.
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Post by y0da89 » Sun Apr 20, 2014 8:53 am

Ok, thank you for your explainations.

But, as I mentionned in another thread, a GPSP port for PS2 is able to run most of the GBA games at a decent speed.
It seems that they had the same RAM-related problem and were able to fix it.

Source code + release + details in this post.
http://psx-scene.com/forums/f19/preview ... ost1094609

Running Nintendo stuff on Sony is quite strange. I would feel better holding my GC controller. :P
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Post by novenary » Sun Apr 20, 2014 5:47 pm

Unfortunately porting that directly would be hard because the PS2 is MIPS and the GC is PPC. It is faster though so with some effort it would be possible.

If anyone knows an emulator for PPC systems with a dynarec that is fast enough on GC or less specs, it would be nice.
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Post by y0da89 » Sun Apr 20, 2014 7:00 pm

I hope so
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Post by Extrems » Sun Apr 20, 2014 7:19 pm

Streetwalker wrote:The Wii doesn't have more RAM. It has four times the ARAM though.
EXRAM/MEM2 on Wii is addressable, ARAM on GameCube isn't.
You have to initiate DMA transfers from/to MRAM.
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Post by novenary » Mon Apr 21, 2014 7:16 am

Oh really ? Didn't know that. Is it actually as fast as the main 24MB ?
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Post by emu_kidid » Mon Apr 21, 2014 10:54 pm

If you're talking about either EXRAM/MEM2 or ARAM, they're both slower than the 24MB MEM1.

ARAM is SDRAM, MEM2 is GDDR3 SDRAM, both are slower than the 1T-SRAM that is the 24MB MEM1.
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Post by novenary » Mon Apr 21, 2014 11:35 pm

Oh well ok then. DDR 3 is still pretty fast but nothing beats 10ns SRAM.
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Post by y0da89 » Tue Apr 22, 2014 11:09 am

And is it possible to use the power of the GameBoy player to improve emulation performances?
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Post by novenary » Tue Apr 22, 2014 11:13 am

Gameboy player = actual GBA hardware. The boot disc contains the communication software.
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Post by y0da89 » Tue Apr 22, 2014 11:38 am

Thank you for the explanations. So the original hardware can run GBA games in full speed.
Where does the problem come from ? (noob language preferred)
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Post by novenary » Tue Apr 22, 2014 2:23 pm

The problem is just that noone is volunteer to write a fast emulator because the cube can potentially emulate the GBA >9000 times full speed. And pretty accurately at that.
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Post by y0da89 » Wed Apr 23, 2014 7:47 am

Well, that is sad. Unfortunately I don't know anything about coding. No such things in my master's degree :D
Is it possible to tweak VBA GX? Or does it mean that someone has to build/create a new emulator ?
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Post by novenary » Wed Apr 23, 2014 8:01 am

It is possible to optimize it but it won't be as fast as an emulator developed with the Cube on mind from the beginning. One thing that could help is WKF ROM loading because the DVD bus is very fast and it has DMA. That would already improve the performance loss due to the lack of RAM. We also need an ARM > PPC dynarec, hardware acceleration for PPU emulation and a Gameboy Color core (the GBC HW is used for audio among other things).
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Post by y0da89 » Wed Apr 23, 2014 11:50 am

Ok thank you again.
If anybody is interested, I found a Gpsp source code here.
http://dl.qj.net/psp/emulators/gpsp-mod ... ource.html
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Post by novenary » Wed Apr 23, 2014 9:20 pm

I'd rather have the official link to the source. ;)
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Post by y0da89 » Wed Apr 23, 2014 10:26 pm

I do not think the official link still exists.
I've read this article mentioning it is the only open source version available
https://github.com/bibanon/android-deve ... /wiki/gPSP
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